M.Y.X. @ Six Condensed Version 11/11/09
Week 3 -Living Today with Hope for Eternity
“A thief comes to steal, kill and destroy; I came [Jesus] so they can have real eternal life, a better life than you’ve ever dreamed of.” John 10:10
The ordinary “life” the world offers. What it offers, and how it leaves us empty:
1. Pain (Relational, depression, addiction, for example)- “Will I always be surrounded by pain?”
2. Hate (Bitterness, envy, for example) – “Can’t somebody love me as I am?”
3. Temporary Happiness (infatuation, alcohol, drugs, for example) – “Why can’t it last?”
4. Despair (not being happy where you are) – “Is there anything better than this?”
BIG IDEA: The world is imperfect so this is all it has to offer. This life is temporary, so is everything it has to offer!
The rescued life God offers:
1. Freedom – “I want you to feel different.”
Ephesians tells us that our freedom was purchased through the blood of Christ.
2. Love – “You can never escape my love.”
Romans 8: 35-29 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? For I am convinced that neither death nor life…nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
3. Joy – “My presence will fill you up.”
This is not based on temporary circumstances but is lasting and from God.
4. Hope – “You will spend eternity with me.”
You have something to look forward to, if you’re a Christian, and that is a future/eternity in heaven.
BIG IDEA: Where will I spend eternity? Where will others in my life?
Responding to the rescue:
Acknowledge the rescue.
Appreciate the rescuer.
Announce the rescuer to others.
If you were rescued from drowning, in the ocean or a pool or a lake, by someone, would you easily forget that event? If someone pulled you up out of the water, so you could breathe, to free you from a life & death situation, would you be retelling the story to everyone you know? Heaping praise and thanks on the person who saved your life and gave you hope that you could keep living?
Making a decision to turn your life over to Christ is a life & death situation….this life is temporary, and we all have the same physical end…but what about the hope of eternity with the greatest Savior and Rescuer of all? Do you have this? Does your best friend, sister, neighbor or dad?
Let God rescue you from an ordinary life!
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